{"id":1371562,"date":"2026-03-19T18:17:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T16:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/orban-crossed-red-lines-eu-leaders-failed-to-convince-hungarian-prime-minister-to-unblock-loan-for-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T18:17:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T16:17:59","slug":"orban-crossed-red-lines-eu-leaders-failed-to-convince-hungarian-prime-minister-to-unblock-loan-for-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/orban-crossed-red-lines-eu-leaders-failed-to-convince-hungarian-prime-minister-to-unblock-loan-for-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cOrban crossed red lines\u201d: EU leaders failed to convince Hungarian Prime Minister to unblock loan for Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>European leaders were unable to convince Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to abandon the decision to block a $90 billion loan for Ukraine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/make-or-break-eu-summit-on-ukraine-iran-live-updates\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was reported by<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Politico.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As four diplomats said on condition of anonymity, the discussion of the loan, which lasted an hour and a half, did not yield the desired result.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to one of the publication&#8217;s interlocutors, European Council President Antonio Costa criticized Orban&#8217;s decision, calling the Hungarian prime minister&#8217;s behavior &#8220;unacceptable.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The President of the European Council believes that Orban is violating the terms of cooperation that are the foundation of the European Union, thus crossing a &#8220;red line&#8221; that no leader has ever crossed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/u-briusseli-startuie-samit-yes-obhovoriat-90-miliardiv-ievro-dopomohy-ukraini\/\">a summit of EU leaders was held in Brussels, where one of the key issues was financial support for Ukraine<\/a> , in particular the possible unlocking of a 90 billion euro aid package.<\/p>\n<p> At the same time, Orban stated in Brussels that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/hroshi-v-obmin-na-naftu-orban-zrobyv-zaiavu-pro-rozblokuvannia-kredytu-dlia-ukrainy\/\">Budapest would not agree to a decision in favor of Ukraine<\/a> until the Druzhba oil pipeline resumes operation.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European leaders were unable to convince Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to abandon the decision to block a $90 billion loan for Ukraine. This was reported by Politico. As four diplomats said on condition of anonymity, the discussion of the loan, which lasted an hour and a half, did not yield the desired result. According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":864318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873,76875],"class_list":["post-1371562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1371562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1371562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1371562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}